St Louis University - Archive Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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REV. THOMAS M. KNAPP, S.I., Dean of llze College of zirzir and Science.r and Chancellor of lhe Unlveralfy. Galleqe of rls om cleizces X Y

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, ' QR IEYAELECRETS v THE STUDENTS SPIRITUAL ADVICE ...ar srl- .'e , 'Y 1 v -V su- - ' - . Univleisitgcllilvi-'dlI'izIii. Q mb 5 ex. emi H. Rkoneti Sli., Rev.. always Sympathetic Counseuori v RESEARCH . ...iscarriedor1intheAtsSl ll'b .rfb j. AN EFFICLENT STAIE'F . iidijxiyeahxisifzlixile liiaiidlies Nl the secretarial and record work ofthe Graduate N 3 School Cleftj. a scholar demands not only intellectual receptiveness but also initiative, resourcefulness and a taste for intellectual adventure along new paths. For the very objective of Graduate School Studies lies in new fields, along untrodden paths. The Graduate School Student must be a pioneer 3 he must tread new paths, make new discoveries, leave behind him landmarks and guiding posts for those who will follow in his wake. By analogy, Graduate students must have those qualities possessed by pioneers. They must have resourcefulness, for they are on their own, with no one to chart the path of their studies, they must have initiative, for whatever progress they make must come from themselves. There is no one to push them along. V A realization of the value of graduate studies has developed in this country within the last decade. More and more students find time and opportunity and desire to con- tinue their studiesg more and more demand is placed on them. St. Louis University'S Graduate School has developed in intensity and extensiveness of work, adapting itself to meet the new requirements and new demands of the age. I Men and women who have been thus broadened by reasoned general training, matured by learning one subject well and stabilized by an appreciation of standards and values-ethical as well as intellectual-are not likely to drift aimlessly, seeking some answer to their inner restlessness. They can march serenely to the exploration of new and fascinating realms, loyal and constant in their service to the cause of truth and justice. V 17 v KU!! M Q fs if tw W5 N A ,V ggi 659 N Af Ea Si' Q5 ff 'iw s ff

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v NO UNIVERSITY BUILDING IS COMPLETE . . . without its chapel. It is here that a student in the College of Arts and Sciences may spend a moment with God. SPITE all our problems the world marches on and there are future years. It will be a bright future for the youth of today if they are prepared to make it so. But they must prepare-prepare for what the future holds. The world is beginning to realize that there are things of such worth that they cannot be rated in terms of dollars and cents 5 that the word success does not begin and end with aidollar sign, but that it depends upon the usefulness and effectiveness of our lives 5 that through all the ages the educated man has been the effective man. The Greek philosopher Aristotle was probably the greatest exponent in the ancient world of what is signified by the term a liberally educated man. Yet the educational influences which contributed to the development of such an intellect declined, and the life work of the Philosopher was lost sight of through many centuries of Western civiliza- tion. There occurred, however, a re-flowering of the same type of educational influence which proved its value by bringing to maturity the intellect of a St. Thomas, and through him the perfection of the whole scheme of scholastic philosophy. V There is no denying the fact that we need technically trained men, but the recent past has taught us that we cannot hope to carry on even in a mechanized civilization without the thinker, the man who is capable of preventing the maladjustment which the merely technically trained specialist is so likely to create. The lawyer, the doctor, the teacher, the dentist, the banker, the financier, the professional man in any field whatsoever is so much the better lawyer, doctor, teacher, banker and so on, if in addition to his professional training he is an educated man. Surely the future will be brighter if, in the face of our present-day depression- intellectual rather than economic-and in reply to the false prophets of the dissolution of our Western culture, universities can raise up a group of intellectual and courageous vI9v